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So, if my company owned a 9x7, needed guaranteed uptime, and wanted to have
the feeling that I had under support (fixed within a day or so) come 4/2002,
what should I do?

Option 1 - Find a 3rd party to support the 9x7.  Who does this/will do this
in 2002?
Option 2 - Buy a used machine (9x8 or other depending on 9x7 model to be
replaced) with HP maintenance, lower support costs and extend the support
life.
Option 3 - Buy a new HP3000 to replace the current 9x7, convert and watch
support costs go down even lower.

If anyone has done this type of cost analysis, I would be interested in
listening to/seeing it.

Also, does anyone know when the 9x8's are off support by HP?

Todd Matteson

-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne R. Boyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:21 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] 9x7 Support


In case anyone is interested ... there is NO repeat NO scarcity of 9x7/8x7
repair parts.  This planned dropping of support for these machines is I
suspect, a business decision on HP's part.  You may supply your own ideas on
the motive for that.

If anybody at HP truly thinks that there is a parts availability problem,
please email me a list of part #s and quantities.  I do desperately need to
do a warehouse cleanup.  About the only thing I don't have a lot of is
MPE/iX
licenses and those don't take up much space.

Wayne Boyer
Cal-Logic